Project Censored

Mickey Huff is co-host of the Project Censored Show with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips. It airs on the progressiveradionetwork.com out of New York City

  • 57 minutes 59 seconds
    The Project Censored Show 11.21.23
    This week's Project Censored Show again focuses on the Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. To open the program, Eleanor's guest, Jacqueline Luqman, notes that the Black liberation struggle in the US has always supported the Palestinian cause as well, and explains the common ground between the two; she also debunks some Zionist talking points. Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor and Mickey analyze corporate media coverage of the Middle East, and the contextual information that isn't mentioned.
    21 November 2023, 5:37 pm
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    Project_Censored_071922
    For the first half of this week's show, Mickey brings on three guests to discuss the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC (www.whistleblowersummit.com). They also make the case for a broader public understanding of what whistleblowing is, and who is a whistleblower.
    Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor Goldfield and her guest look at the recent election in Colombia, which saw leftist candidate Gustavo Petro
    winning the presidency and Afro-Colombian environmental activist Francia Marquez the vice-presidency.   Notes: Michael McCray and Marcel Reid are the co-founders of the International Association of Whistleblowers.
    McCray is also General Counsel for the Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund. Reid is a former member of the Pacifica Radio National Board. Marsha Warfield is a nationally-known comedian and actress, and will be hosting some events at the Whistleblower Summit.
    Gimena Sanchez is a staff member at the Washington Office on Latin America (www.wola.org).
    19 July 2022, 4:20 pm
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    Project Censored - 02.22.22
    Program Summary:
      New co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks first with Benjamin Norton, to learn how President Biden is "out-Trumping Trump" on immigration. Norton also offers an update on political conditions in Latin America. In the second half of the show, Eugene Puryear explains racism's deep roots in US history, and how it cannot be defeated by superficial actions. He also looks at the significance of Black History Month.
      Benjamin Norton is an independent journalist who focuses on Latin America; he's also the founder of the news web site www.multipolarista.com.   
    Eugene Puryear has been a peace-and-justice organizer since his high-school days; he's the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration
    in Capitalist America," and he writes at www.breakthroughnews.org      Notes:
    22 February 2022, 8:12 pm
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    Project Censored - 02.15.22
    Program Summary:
    Mickey spends the hour with historian Peter Kuznick, who examines the current
    U.S. confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, summarizes the recent history of Ukraine, and emphasizes the urgency of settling the crisis peacefully.
      Notes: Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington DC, and also directs the Nuclear Studies Program at that institution.
    He and Oliver Stone wrote the groundbreaking book The Untold History of the United States, and also produced a Showtime documentary series based on the book.
    More information can be found at www.untoldhistory.com.
    22 February 2022, 8:08 pm
  • 53 minutes 56 seconds
    Project Censored - 02.08.22
    Program Summary:
    After several visits as a guest, Eleanor Goldfield joins the program as co-host with Mickey Huff.
    In the first segment of this week's show, Kevin Gosztola delivers a brief update about Julian Assange's case.
    Then Jayeesha Dutta speaks with Eleanor about a possible future for the Gulf of Mexico that doesn't include
    hazardous offshore oil drilling. In the final segment, Alan MacLeod looks at a purported fake-news watchdog,
    Graphika, which actually is staffed by numerous retired military, CIA and NATO personnel, and dismisses many domestic alternative media organizations as tools of foreign "enemies."
        Notes: Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of the news web site www.Shadowproof.com 
    He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from the beginning, as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases.
    Jayeesha Dutta is co-founder of AnotherGulf.com; she also works with the Climate Justice Alliance. Alan MacLeod is a media scholar and a senior staff writer at Mint Press News.
    22 February 2022, 8:04 pm
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    Project Censored - 02.01.22
    Program Summary:

    Eleanor Goldfield returns to the program to address several topics in media and world events, including the ongoing scandal of Julian Assange's imprisonment,
    the folly of threatening Russia, and the shallowness of commercial media. Then media scholar Nolan Higdon revisits the program to explain how tech giants
    are infiltrating the classroom by sponsoring carefully-tailored "media-literacy" course materials.   Eleanor Goldfield is a journalist, artist, and organizer; her web site is www.artkillingapathy.com She also produced a documentary, Hard Road of Hope, about West Virginia communities confronting pollution from fracking (www.hardroadofhope.com). The Craig Murray article she mentions (about Julian Assange) can be found at  consortiumnews.com/2022/01/25/craig-murray-your-man-in-the-courtroom-is-there-an-exit 
    Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. He's also the author of the book "The Anatomy of Fake News." His recent article (co-written with Allison Butler) is titled "Time to Put Your Marketing Cap On." It appears in the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.  
    22 February 2022, 7:59 pm
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    Project Censored - 01.25.22
    Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture in April 2021, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio. The occasion was the release of her new book, which revisits Central American history, especially the wars of the 1980s and their ongoing consequences. This week's program presents excerpts from that event.     Notes:   This is a rebroadcast of a previously-aired Project Censored Show.
      Aviva Chomsky, eldest daughter of Noam Chomsky, is professor of history at Salem State University in Massachusetts; her field is Latin American studies. She's written extensively about immigration, and also has been involved in Latin American solidarity work for over a quarter-century. Her book, Central America's Forgotten History, is published by Beacon Press.
            Music-break information:
    1) "Marwa Blues" by George Harrison
    2) "Ride Across the River" by Dire Straits
    3) "Phoenix" by Wishbone Ash 
    25 January 2022, 8:23 pm
  • 57 minutes 19 seconds
    Project Censored - 12.14.21
    Program Summary:
      Project Censored's new annual volume will soon be available. "State of the Free Press 2022" includes the well-known 'Top 25' censored stories of the preceding year, as well as many more chapters of media analysis. Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek of Project Censored spend the hour with Mickey to discuss the new book, and also explain
    Project Censored's procedures for identifying and compiling under-reported stories.
      Notes:   Andy Lee Roth is associate director of Project Censored; he holds a PhD in Sociology from UCLA and has published widely on media issues.
    Steve Macek teaches Communications and Media Studies at North Central College in Illinois. Roth and Macek are co-coordinators of Project Censored's Campus Affiliates Program.  
    15 December 2021, 1:05 pm
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    Project Censored - 12.07.21
    Program Summary:   Author Chris Hedges also teaches college-level courses for New Jersey state prison inmates. His new book, “Our Class,” explains what happened
    when Hedges taught a dramatic-literature course to inmates, then helped them write a play of their own – “Caged” – based on their personal life events.
    As well, the inmates' stories illustrate the many cruelties of life in an American prison.  Chris Hedges spoke at a KPFA / Project Censored Zoom event
    on November 18; this week's program presents excerpts from that talk.  
    Notes:   Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist with a long career as a war correspondent around the world. He hosts the program "On Contact"
    for RT Television, and writes online at www.scheerpost.com. His previous books include "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," "Death of the Liberal Class,"
    and "America: The Farewell Tour."  
    8 December 2021, 7:56 pm
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    Project Censored - 11.16.21
    This week we present a rebroadcast of a speech delivered one year ago by journalist Chris Hedges.
    In a Zoom speech shortly after the 2020 election, Hedges spoke about the deeper forces of political and economic decay
    afflicting the US. This episode contains Hedges' complete speech, titled "The Culture of Despair."
      Notes:   Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist with a long career as a foreign correspondent around the world.
    He hosts the program "On Contact" for RT Television, and writes online at www.scheerpost.com  His books include
    War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,  Death of the Liberal Class, and most recently, America: The Farewell Tour.
    18 November 2021, 1:27 pm
  • 56 minutes 15 seconds
    Project Censored - 11.10.21
    Online journalist Kevin Gosztola returns to the program to deliver an update about
    the Julian Assange extradition case in the UK, and its disturbing impacts for press freedom.
    Then in the second half, Eleanor Goldfield tells about the remarkable range of issues in which
    Wikileaks has obtained and published secret documents.   Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of the news web site www.Shadowproof.com 
    He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from the beginning,
    as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases. Eleanor Goldfield is a journalist, artist and organizer; her web site is www.artkillingapathy.com   She also produced a documentary, Hard Road of Hope, about West Virginia communities confronting pollution from fracking.   
    10 November 2021, 2:30 pm
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